#Career: A Guide to Zooming Out & Moving Up
Careers are orbits. You may be performing great in your current role. But in order to move to the next orbit, you need to build escape velocity. How do you do that? You need to zoom out in order to move up. Refer to this blog post for what it means to go from Product Manager to Product Leader.
Download the one page guide.
Strategic Portfolio Management Playbook Used by Winning Tech Companies
Rahul Abhyankar hosts Michael Eckhardt, Managing Director of Chasm Institute, to discuss the strategic portfolio management playbook used by Salesforce, Microsoft, Spotify and other winning tech companies to make the tough decisions on what to invest in, what to postpone and what to stop.
The recording is below.
You can also download the related material below. Michael Eckhardt has graciously provided Zone to Win templates so that you can fill them out for your company's products and services.
Slides - Strategic Portfolio Management Executive Briefing
Part 1 Zone to Win Placement Template Reference
These 6 intro slides from the executive briefing provide a background for you to use the editable template below.
Part 2 Zone to Win Placement Editable Template
Use this template to apply to your company's 4 to 5 most important product lines in your portfolio, and then discuss with your senior team to assess if these product lines are properly managed + optimized (re: the mission, the way it is being resourced + managed, the right people + skills, success metrics, financial measures), given the Zone they are currently in.
Michael Eckhardt provides answers to questions asked in Zoom Chat
A number of great questions were asked in the live session. Michael Eckhardt took the time to provide answers to questions.
What Customers Wished We Had Asked
Rahul Abhyankar joined Shardul Mehta, who publishes the StreetSmartProductManager newsletter, to host a live webinar for Product Managers, titled: What Customers Wish We Had Asked. We shared practical customer discovery tactics we have personally used to learn from customers, build deeper customer relationships and deliver awesome products!
Watch the recording: https://vimeo.com/990261639
